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Rockchip unveils RK3668 10-core Arm Cortex-A730/Cortex-A530 SoC with 16 TOPS NPU, RK182X LLM/VLM co-processor (www.cnx-software.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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The RK3688 will come with eight big cores and four SMALL cores, while the RK3668 is offered in a four big cores and six SMALL cores configuration. The RK3688 also offers a 32 TOPS AI accelerator, up to 200GB/s LPDDR6 memory bandwidth, a 16Kp30 video decoder, and an 8Kp60 video encoder.

The second announcement I noticed, thanks to BG5SUN on X, is about the RK182X 3B/7B LLM/VLM co-processor.

It features a multi-core RISC-V CPU, 2.5GB or 5GB “ultra-high bandwidth” DRAM, and PCIe 2.0, USB 3.0, and Ethernet interfaces to connect to the host processor. The company indicates that INT4/FP4 7B parameter models can fit into 3.5GB of RAM. They are designed for the company’s Rockchip RK3576/RK3588 SoCs, already equipped with a 6 TOPS NPU, as well as other processors.

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[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bench numbers seem about right for 200GB/s bandwidth. The prefill speeds are really impressive for an SBC though.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought Rockchip said they were getting out of the SBC game after their chips were found in Russian drones.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rockchip makes the processor. Similar to how Intel makes CPU's. Then other board partners buy those CPU's and put them on (usually) singleboard computers similar to a Raspberry Pi but faster and cheaper.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yes-ish. Rockchip can choose wether it want to support its chips in Linux at all. Many of these companies just make it work and Android and anything else is just a niche market giving them a little bonus.

[–] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't that OrangePi?